Planetary Cycles: Mundane Astrology

by André Barbault, Kate Johnston (Compiler), Roy Gillett (Editor)

Drawing on his 80 years research and writing; Andre Barbault considers the historical records of socio-economic change going back to the pre-Christian era, and then focuses in great detail on the last two to three hundred years; to show how history connects and develops in accordance with the cycles of the outer-planets, triggered by the faster-moving ones. He then goes on to make some interesting observations for the future.

Genres: Astrology

168 pages, Paperback

Published May 2, 2016

Reviews

[Paul · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting survey of one man's life work in examining the connections between planetary movements and global events. It reads in many ways like jottings in a notebook set into type.

There is a lot of historical detail presented, but mostly without a clear indication of how or why the events described match the planetary configurations they're thought to be connected with. It's hard to know to what extent cherry-picking or confirmation bias may have informed the choice of things presented for events in the past. On the plus side, the author has made some impressive forecasts, notably the collapse of the Soviet Union and sweeping change in Europe in the period 1989-1991. He has also predicted a severe testing time for the world in the period 2019-2022, and I would say that was a prescient call.

This book is suggestive rather than something that is really a textbook on mundane astrology. Despite the author's insistence on the rigor of his own methods, I wondered what a really good, valid methodology might be for testing mundane astrology. As with so many things, connections look obvious in hindsight; the real test is in forecasting, and with anything so complex as "the world," this is tricky work.

You can get the most out of this book, I think, if you treat it as the notebook of a dedicated and long-practicing astrologer: sketchy in places, personal, and idiosyncratic, but also passionate and well informed.

[Linda · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found it quite difficult to follow. I have basic knowledge of astrology but possibly not enough for this book. However I wonder how much was lost in translation. I noted a lot of editing errors, for example, leaving colons out of time stamps, parenthetical statements that weren’t closed, etc. A cleanly translated and edited version might be easier to read. However I did finish the book and have to say it gave me a greater appreciation for how much our globe has been dominated by war and violence. There have been brief reprieves, and many advances were also noted in the book but when one part of the globe achieved a measure of peace, another would slip into war. It would be nice if this were updated because some of his predictions for this era have come to pass and I can see some recent events that might evolve into similar trends that are due to come about in the next several decades.

[Karen Christino · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was thrilled to see this English translation of French astrologer Andre Barbault's book on planetary cycles. Barbault, one of the more accurate astrological forecasters, did an enormous amount of painstaking historical research over many decades, and he generously shares it. In-depth and not a book for light reading, I read it through once and now use as a reference, as it contains a tremendous amount of valuable information for those interested in astrological cycles.

[Sim White · Rating 1 out of 5]

It is a shame that for this important Barbault work, the translation is not up to the required standard.

[Sara Abrashkin-Rotaru · Rating 5 out of 5]

Intersting view between astrology and history